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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 794, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/794/2/168
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acceleration of particles; astroparticle physics; cosmic rays; dark matter; ISM: supernova remnants
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- ERC [267117]
- PNHE
- ILP
- European Research Council (ERC) [267117] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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Recent results from the AMS-02 data have confirmed that the cosmic-ray positron fraction increases with energy between 10 and 200 GeV. This quantity should not exceed 50%, and it is hence expected that it will either converge toward 50% or fall. We study the possibility that future data may show the positron fraction dropping down abruptly to the level expected with only secondary production, and forecast the implications of such a feature in term of possible injection mechanisms that include both dark matter and pulsars. Were a sharp steepening to be found, rather surprisingly, we conclude that pulsar models would do at least as well as dark matter scenarios in terms of accounting for any spectral cut-off.
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